Russia’s state-backed messaging app Max can secretly change how it surveils individual users, researchers at InterSecLab find
Meduza · 24 Sep 2026

Russia’s state-backed messaging app Max can secretly change how it surveils individual users, researchers at InterSecLab find

The Kremlin-backed Max messenger has broad capabilities for tracking users, but their configuration can vary from account to account and is controlled by its developer, the Russian social media company VK. That’s according to a new report from the digital security lab InterSecLab, which Meduza has r


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